October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
64h 7m
English
Shared folders don’t have to be subfolders. Computer owners can share the root folder of a disk drive, making the entire drive available over the network. This is especially useful with DVD, CD, floppy, and USB disk drives. For example, if an entire DVD-ROM drive is shared, you can access the data disc in it from any computer on the network.
Just so you know, Windows automatically shares your entire hard drive with the special name C$. (Any other hard drives would also be shared as D$, E$, and so on.) These shares don’t show up when you browse the network—the dollar sign at the end tells Windows to keep the name hidden. Oddly enough, they don’t appear if you view the drive’s Sharing properties either. You can ...
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